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[This followup was posted to lugnet.general and a copy was sent to the cited author.] In article <Fo1w9K.LvE@lugnet.com>, mak2@umail.ucsb.edu says... (...) See my previous post; the new Rock Raiders have a figure with a dark grey hat (the Civil War (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.western, lugnet.general)
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(...) Well I finally did it! I just finished painting a confederate soldier. I made him out of one of those stupid insectoid minifigs (with the gray torso) that I got for xmas a year ago from a friend. It looks pretty good. I will try to get a pic (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jan-00, to lugnet.western, lugnet.general)
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(...) really (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jan-00, to lugnet.western, lugnet.general)
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(...) I've posted some pics of my own Wild West themed trains on my site you may be interested in. You may be interested to know that most of my parts are from currently available sets so there's no need to go out of your way to find old sets to to (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jan-00, to lugnet.western, lugnet.general)
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I am a Civil War Re-enactor. I also have a few LEGO sets lying about. That's the reason I stumbled into this site. The advantage of Mini-figs in their respective armies is there isn't a GREAT amount of detail to worry about. Who cares if they are (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jan-00, to lugnet.western)
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(...) Thanks for letting us know about what torso you use; I couldn't seem to think of a good one. That Max Villano torso would work pretty well, come to think of it. Just pretend those pistols are revolvers : ). I'll have to get some spare parts (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jan-00, to lugnet.western, lugnet.general)
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[This followup was posted to lugnet.general and a copy was sent to the cited author.] In article <FnzH38.83o@lugnet.com>, tjjohn12@twcny.rr.com says... (...) For what it's worth, the new rock raiders sets have the dark grey hat (kepi?). Like you (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jan-00, to lugnet.western, lugnet.general)
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I have never seen a 3225 for sale in the US or Canada at a store that wasn't directly operated by TLC. That may change but it seems to be the case now. In europe there are stores that sell it though. That set deserved to be run longer. It had a very (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jan-00, to lugnet.western, lugnet.general)
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(...) (or (...) the (...) more modernized train sets for sell at stores. Have you seen any for sale anywhere that are for reasonable prices? Thanks David (25 years ago, 9-Jan-00, to lugnet.western, lugnet.general)
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(...) I cane up with a cool design for a train that is buildable if you have a 3225 (or lots or parts) If you desperatly want instructions I will make up a copy from the .dat file. If you want the .dat files then it is on .cad.dat.models somewhere. (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.western, lugnet.general)
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(...) Cool I wish that I had a train for my wild west sets. I think that lego really missed out by not doing a train for the wild west. I have built a hotel and I reconstructed the sherrif's office where the jail was inside the building. Hopefully (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.western, lugnet.general)
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(...) hope (...) to (...) I have Fort Legorado, a weapons wagon, a fig pack, a sherrif's office (spare parts),a Indian thing (rain dance ridge?)and a bandit's wheel gun. I have built a: saloon small mine train depot(SMALL!) w/ windmill I use the (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.western, lugnet.general)
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(...) Glad to hear back from you. This really sounds like a good thing. I just hope that we get some more feedback from others out there. I am currently trying to build a WW set up in the years after the war with some hold out confederates. Trying (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.western, lugnet.general)
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(...) I (...) Sorry my reply took soooooo long, this discusion got out of hand. I currently (in my WW set-up, mid 1870's for me) have a left-over confederate. I use drk grey legs, drk grey torso (ADVENTURE's 1999 bad guy), a union soldier type face (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.western, lugnet.general)
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(...) Has anyone still seen wild west sets still out for sell at any stores? I have seen the 6706 Frontier Patrol and the weapons wagon but that is about all I can find. David (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.western)
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(...) the (...) that (...) Just look at the shelves. Tons of 1997 Indian/Western sets that don't sell, even with discount prices. Bruce wrote: (...) Civil (...) perhaps (...) Exactly. I would predict low sales here in Europe, and probably also in (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.western)
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(...) Hmmm...I think since we're discussing pirate dublurgs (sort of like blurg dubloons) this belongs there too. I know that I've got a virtual mint in gold and silver! Anyhow, I wonder what the Wild West/Town Dollar-to-Pirate/Wild West Blurg (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.western, lugnet.town, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) That sounds like a great idea. How do we start it? Just let me know and I'm all for it. Who Else wants WW/CW lego pages? I am thinking about buying a bunch of the 6706 Frontier Patrol packs that I have spoted at the TRU and painting the torso (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.western)
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Shiri <shirid@hotmail.com> schreef in berichtnieuws Fnoq0K.2Bu@lugnet.com... (...) FnL6up.CGL@lugnet.com... (...) sets? (...) they (...) (In (...) I (...) be (...) whites (...) against the (...) ninja (...) with (...) Now that I read the anecdote, I (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.western, lugnet.castle)
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(...) I'm not sure how widespread (as in worldwide) interest is in the U.S. Civil War*. Nor is the War Between the States# specifically western, except perhaps to countries east of North America. It might have done better if they hadn't completely (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.western)
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